X-Men - Evolved Edition

[Bobson Dugnutt]

To celebrate the release of what seems to be the final installment in the Fox X-Men francise, and likely the last appearence of Hugh Jackman of Wolverine, I decided to go right back to the start of the series and do a classic extended edition.

The X-Men 1.5 DVD and the Blu-Ray have a very sloppy branching feature where you can see them integrated into the film, but it's so poorly done, I felt I could do better.

The deleted stuff with Rogue and Iceman were great and set up their romance in X2, and I always felt she kind of got forgotten about once they got to the school. Didn't see much of her fitting in and enjoying herself. Luckily there's plenty that I could add back.

Was a lot of fun to do, especially adding score from a bunch of different X-Men films, where the deleted scenes had none.

ADDITIONS
- added X-Men themed Marvel card from X3
- added X-Men themed 20th Century Fox fanfare from Days of Future Past
- extended Rogue's first class, being taught about the Roman Empire adopting Christianity forcefully
- extended mechanic class with Cyclops, showing Jean by his side
- added Rogue's class finishing up, Bobby asking to show her around, and Storm talking to Rogue about the school
- added Bobby walking Rogue back to her room after showing her around
- extended bedroom scene with Jean and Wolverine
- added Prof X failing to find Magneto and his brotherhood with Cerebro, and Jean insisting she can try
- cut reference in previous deleted scene to an unreleased deleted scene from the senete scene with Jean (she showcased her powers in front of everyone)
- added Jean and Prof X discussing Logan and his nature while drinking tea
- added Cyclops suiting up before the Statue of Liberty mission, and giving Wolverine his uniform
- cut final line of the previous deleted scene, with Scott outright saying it's one of his suits, wierd comment since they're clearly wildly different sizes

Theatrical - 1:44:14

Evolved - 1:51:53


New pieces of score include:

X1 (Michael Kamen)
- Logan Drives, Cerebro, Charles Xavier Insitute

X2 (John Ottman)
- Alkali Lake, Cerebro, Harmless Kiss, What Can Bobby Do, and Suite from X2

Apocalypse (John Ottman)
- Favourite Tree, and Scott's New Glasses

 

[wilhelm scream]

We're you able to clean up the deleted scenes to make them look better? I have a DvD with them and they look terrible

 

[Bobson Dugnutt]

We're you able to clean up the deleted scenes to make them look better? I have a DvD with them and they look terrible

Somewhat, the edit is only in 720p since the scenes were in non-anamorphic widescreen, so it's sub SD. But I've worked my usual magic to try and get it up to scratch.

 

[Canon Editor]

Very nice idea! Looking forward to it very much!

 

[DigModiFicaTion]

 

[Bobson Dugnutt]

Just for a bit of fun, I've recorded an editor's commentary for this edit, being my first track for any of my edits.

Doing this edit, and the Making-Of documentary, I had gotten so into the film, that I felt I could do something interesting with a commentary track.

It's packed with fun trivia, the making of this edit, reflections on the X-Men films ahead of DP/Wolverine, general thoughts on Superhero films, and oddly a lot of similar stories about Michael Jackson.

I hope to do more commentaries if I can, if people listen to this one, let me know if I should!

Also added was another audio option, with an isolated score track, with music by the late great Michael Kamen, edited from scratch using the 2021 Expanded OST, if you just can't get enough X-Men in your life.

If you have the original link to the edit, the new version will be updated.